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Water, wind, breath : Southwest Native art in the Barnes Foundation / edited by Lucy Fowler Williams ; with texts by Tony R. Chavarria, TahNibaa Naataanii, and Ken Williams Jr. ; and contributions by Robert Bauver and Laurie D. Webster.

by Barnes Foundation, issuing body, publisher, host institution.

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Philadelphia : The Barnes Foundation, [2022]

Indian art -- Southwest, New.

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Exhibitions.

Indian art -- United States -- Exhibitions.

Indian art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States.

Navajo silverwork.

Pueblo pottery.

Navajo blankets -- Catalogs.

9780300264128 (hardcover)

0300264127 (hardcover)

viii, 211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, portraits (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Map -- In the shadows of paradise : Albert C. Barnes and the Spirit of Santa Fe / Lucy Fowler Williams -- Chasing the dawn : renewing the world in the Pueblo dance / Tony R. Chavarria -- Pueblo pottery: meditations on clay mother's gift / Tony R. Chavarria -- Checklist of Pueblo pottery in the Barnes Foundation -- Navajo textiles: weaving a space of great peace / TahNibaa Naataanii -- A Navajo "slave" blanket / Lucy Fowler Williams and TahNibaa Naataanii -- Dating the Southwest Native textiles in the Barnes Foundation / Laurie D. Webster -- Checklist of Southwest Native textiles in the Barnes Foundation -- Southwest Native jewelry / Ken Williams Jr. -- Chief Ignacio of the Weeminuche Band / Lucy Fowler Williams -- Silver and Southwest Native art / Robert Bauver -- Checklist of Southwest Native jewelry in the Barnes Foundation -- Appendix: summary table of Southwest Native textile dye analyses / David A. Wenger, PhD.

This richly illustrated book makes the Barnes Foundation's exceptional collection of Native American art from the Southwest available to the public for the first time. Collector and educator Albert C. Barnes traveled to the U.S. Southwest in 1930 and 1931 and, deeply impressed by the generative art practices he saw there, formed a collection of Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry. "Water, Wind, Breath" illuminates the materials, forms, and designs of the objects as they relate to Pueblo and Navajo histories and ideas. The book blends postcolonial and Indigenous perspectives, introducing readers to living artistic traditions filled with purpose, intention, and a deeply embedded spirituality that connects places, practices, and Native identities. Works by contemporary Native American artists are juxtaposed with historic pieces, illuminating the connections between heritage traditions and modern practices.

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